Hudson Line Halfway Back As Scarborough Mudslide Cleanup Continues

SCARBOROUGH, NY — MTA Metro-North Railroad today resumed near normal service on the full length of the Hudson Line after crews worked for 43 hours straight to clear 350 cubic yards of soil and debris and 250 cubic yards of rock and cement walls from a mudslide in Scarborough that covered all four of the line’s tracks.

The railroad had operated bus service over the weekend to allow passengers to continue travel while train service was suspended between Tarrytown and Croton-Harmon.

Full-length Hudson Line train service resumed with the train departing Poughkeepsie at 4:12 a.m., MTA officials said.

"I can't say enough about the Metro-North workers who've been out there all weekend long. There's just been a tremendous, tremendous effort to get the service back this morning," Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi said in a statement. "We've got four tracks in that area; two have been cleared and we’re running on two, we've got two more that need to be cleared away."

Rinaldi said the MTA is working with the property owner up above to make sure that the slope is stable.

"And that's part of the plan in terms of bringing the service back on those two tracks. At this point. I would expect we're probably going to be running on two tracks for the rest of this week," she said.

To reduce the potential for congestion-related delays, four of the 158 trains the Metro-North operates daily were cancelled Monday morning.

For Monday's evening rush:

• The 5:30 p.m. departing Grand Central will not run. Customers should consider the 5:32 p.m. departing Grand Central instead.
• The 6:11 p.m. departing Grand Central will not run. Customers should consider 6:15pm departure from Grand Central instead.

Work is expected to continue for days to clear the mud and debris from the remaining two tracks.

To reduce congestion in the area where tracks are limited, reverse-peak trains will bypass Philipse Manor or Scarborough during the morning and evening rush hours. Customers looking to travel north to those stations in the morning will need to ride a northbound train to Ossining or Croton-Harmon to board a southbound train. Customers looking to travel south from those stations in the evening will need to ride a southbound train to Tarrytown to board a northbound train.

The mudslide was reported at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday.

Crews worked around the clock over the weekend to clear soil, debris, rock and cement walls from two of the Hudson Line’s four tracks.

Now they are breaking apart the rock walls to reincorporate segments to help stabilize the slope where the mudslide occurred, and they are repositioning other segments to the shore side of the Hudson Line, transforming it into “rip-rap” that stabilizes the coastline alongside the rail line, Metro-North officials said.

Customers are encouraged to check for updated train schedules in the TrainTime app, on the MTA website, and on MTA social media platforms.